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UPDATED, 11:34 a.m.: Sony Pictures Classics has firmed up release plans for its drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which charts the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis. Based on the stage play by Mark St. Germain, who wrote the script, the film opens in theaters in New

CAA had been silent all day Wednesday since Julia Ormond named the uber-agency and Disney in her sexual battery lawsuit against the imprisoned Harvey Weinstein, but tonight the Bryan Lourd-led company is calling its inclusion in the action “baseless.” In fact, CAA stopped just short of citing the claim of breach of fiduciary duty by

Wind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival. With that mid-September atmospheric outburst, Hurricane Lee did in the scheduled U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new

This is Day 83 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.  The language was salty but the mood was upbeat at a union rally in Midtown Manhattan by striking actors and their supporters from the 150,000-member Transportation Workers Union.  With talks between the actors union and the production studios paused until Wednesday, the crowd at SAG-AFTRA’s solidarity picket with the

EXCLUSIVE: Animal Pictures principals Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne are going their separate ways on the producing front, in an amicable situation, Deadline can exclusively reveal. Sources ascribed the split to a desire on the part of both producers to entertain differing creative paths and pursuits. Rudolph and Lyonne have made the mutual decision that

One down, and more to come. That’s the word from SAG-AFTRA and studio CEOS after meeting officially Monday for the first time since the 160,000-strong guild went out of strike on July 14 – they plan to do it again. “SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP met for a full day bargaining session and have concluded. Negotiations

EXCLUSIVE: Following major roles in everything from Netflix’s Sex/Life to the hit Prime Video pic Red, White & Royal Blue and New Line/Warner Bros’ Black Adam, actress Sarah Shahi has signed with agency Independent Artist Group, at the same time inking with Untitled Entertainment for management. Shahi is perhaps best known for leading Stacy Rukeyser’s

As Deadline told you, AMC is releasing the concert film of Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour on Dec. 1. The 32 Grammy winner released a trailer on her social media channels tonight, making all the heavy buzz official from yesterday. This was expected since it’s the last night of the tour in Kansas City, MO. Right

Francis Ford Coppola has spoken out on a recent trend — women asking men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire. The auteur revealed that he often thinks about the empire’s rise and fall, and then tied Roman history as the inspiration for his upcoming, self-financed film, Megalopolis. “How often do

Foe, a complicated love story set in the near future amid burned out farmland, intertwines AI and climate catastrophe with the challenges of keeping a marriage together — all elements director Garth Davis (Lion) said pulled him to the story. “There are so many reasons why I was compelled to make this film, and why

Fans may love the realism in the new Saw X horror film. But try living next door to the editing bay. Saw X’s director Kevin Greutert reveals in a new NME interview that the police knocked on the door during the film’s post-production in Hollywood. Apparently, the neighbors summoned help because they believed someone was

UPDATE, SEPT. 29: A 27-year-old man has been arrested for a widely publicized fight with a 63- year-old man over movie theater seats in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Jesse Montez Thorton II, 27, faces one count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. “BSO detectives worked this case for months,” BSO

The end of the writers’ strike isn’t the only inflection point Ted Sarandos is marking this week. “Today, after 25 years, we ship our last DVD,” the Netflix co-CEO posted this morning on social media. “Those iconic red envelopes were so loved that we shipped more than 5 billion of them to cities and towns,

The power of Taylor Swift compels you. And it’s also worked its ways on producer Jason Blum, who cast out his The Exorcist: Believer to an earlier October release date to avoid a clash with Swift’s concert film. Blum explained his reasoning in an interview with EW. “The one thing that scares me to death

The first trailer has dropped for Argylle, the Matthew Vaughn-directed spy thriller with a loaded cast led by Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Adriana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson. The Apple Original Films pic has a February 2 theatrical release date set in partnership with

During an interview with GQ, director Martin iScorsese revealed that Warner Bros. asked him to alter the ending of his film The Departed so that a sequel could be birthed. WB allegedly wanted one of the two leads alive at the end. “What they wanted was a franchise,” Scorsese said. “It wasn’t about a moral

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Fantastic Fest and Sitges 2023 movie The Invisible Fight from LevelK. Above is a new international teaser for the movie. The Estonian heavy metal kung fu comedy is written and directed by Rainer Sarnet (November) and got its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

Netflix has dropped an official trailer for Fair Play. Starring Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer, Cocaine Bear, Solo: A Star Wars Story) and written and directed by first-time filmmaker Chloe Domont, the film was the breakout hit of the Sundance film festival this year. The film also stars Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, and Sebastian De Souza. When a coveted promotion at

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Ilker Çatak, whose terrific film The Teachers’ Lounge is Germany’s submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards, wants to see and make films that provoke. But what exactly does that mean? Well, according to Çatak, most filmmakers, including himself, can feel a bit ‘same,’ despite best intentions. “We’re all kind of left-wing

With an excitement in the air of the WGA and AMPTP’s tentative deal and scribes poised to return to daytime and late-night TV talk shows, the new agreement’s impact on the motion picture side may not be as immediate given how those unfinished feature productions hinge on studios settling with SAG-AFTRA. With the possibility of